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Hungary’s LGTBQ community defies government ban to march in Budapest Pride

With rainbow flags flying high, tens of thousands of LGBTQ Hungarians and their supporters took to the streets of Budapest for a Pride parade, defying a government ban and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s legal threats against activists. Organizers for the 30th edition of the Pride march in the Hungarian capital …

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Japan executes man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” convicted serial killer who murdered and dismembered 9 people

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them …

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The Trump tariffs aren’t causing U.S. prices to spike. Here’s why.

Despite concerns earlier this year that President Trump’s tariffs would cause a renewed bout of inflation, the prices of goods and services across the U.S. have remained relatively stable.  The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, rose 2.3% in May, modestly above the central bank’s …

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